Switch for plaiting and braiding machines.



No. 886,826. PATENTED MAY-.5, 1908.

.B. LEPPERHOFP. SWI'I'GE FDR PLAITING AND BRAIDING MAGHIN ES.

APPLIUATIOX FILED P1113. q. 1900.

ATTORNEY UNITED STA'BIES;

PA 'trENT OFFICE,

BERNITARD LEPPEBHOFF, OF BARMEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOH TO, SUTRO BROS. BRA ID COM PANY, OF NEW YORK, Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WITCH FOR PLAITING AND BRAIDING- MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 6, 1906. Serial N0. 299,790.

Patented May 5, -1908.'

To all whom. it-mwy concern:

Be it known that I, BnRNImiin Lnrrnii- HOFF, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Jaegerstrasse 77', Barnien, Germany, have invented new and useful Imn'oveinents in Switches for Plaiting and liraiding Machines, of which the following is a s )eciiication.

he object of this invention is to provide a substitnte for the vibrating tongue switches in plaiting and braiding machines. This iiivention can also be practically a iplied' when in applying tongue switches .did'iculties are encountered in consequence of want of room.

This invention is set forth in the following specification and claim and illustriitcd in the annexed drawing, in which:

Figure I is a plan view of a braiding machine embodying this invention. side view of Fig. l. l i 1.

iietween plates 1, l, 2, 2,-is applied a frog or henrt shaped piece or ilate 3. Two slides Fig. 3 is a front VlOW of '4', 4, are shown sunk or (pressed sons to be llusl with the upper face of 'iiccc 3. These slides by suitable means can he so shil'ted as to contact with plate I, or with the opposite plate 2 as required. 'lhcy are so shaped as to form in each of said cases a complement or completion of the respective race way or path for the bobbin carriers and cori'cspomlingly guide the oncoming bobbin carrier. The slide at the right in contact with plate I and the slide at the left in contact with plate 2 the oncoming bobbin carrier at the right is led to the miter plate, the one at the left to the in- I nei' plate. 'lhc i'eci n'ocal'ions ol' the slides 4 will be understood rom Figs. :2 and Si.

()n column 5 are fulcrumcil two lovers (3 -Fig. .2 is a' and 7 at thescrews 8. These levers at their 11 per ends pass through slits in the fro or p ate 3 and engage or enter seats in the slides 4 to actuate the, latter. The swing of the levers under the influence of the acquard machine is convertedinto a reciprocating movement of the slides 4. The latter are guided at their straight edges by the corresponding edges of the frog. Additional guiding and. security are provided by the small screws 9 extended into slots in the slides.

As shown each individual slide can be actuatcd b itself by the jacquard machine.

What claim as ncwand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

form a raceway thercbetween, of a't'rog piece applied between the whites. slides seated against the sides of and aving their to faces forth between tlieplatcs.

2. in a; machine of the class described, the combination with plates suitably spaced to form a l'l('(\\"iltherebct'ween, of it frog pir'ice levers l'or actuating the slides.

my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

i l l i 1 l-li-xinn. AHLEFELTIER.

1. In a machine of the class describei'l, thecombination with plates suitably spaced to fixed between the plates,slidcshaving pin andslotconnections with the frog piece to be P00145- lincai'ly ,tl'llHlNl thereon to form switches, and

'60 flush with the top of the iro piccc, am levers" lor moving the slides I'Otfttlllt'ttl'l)lmtli and,

, 1 ln testimonywhereofl have hereunto setv 

